I'm out of here...

[Martin Klaffenboeck]

Am 2003.08.12 10:58 schrieb(en) Franz Klammer:
> Am Di, 2003-08-12 um 00.20 schrieb Jeremy Messenger:
> > On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 00:42:42 +0200, Martin Klaffenboeck
> > <martin.klaffenboeck at gmx.at> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > (Please cc me, I'm not on the list anymore.)
> > >
> > > I was maintaining about 9 ports in the FreeBSD ports collection,
> and I
> > > was starting the gports project (http://gports.sourceforge.net).
> > >
> > > But now I have changed back to linux after using FreeBSD on my
> desktop
> > > for about two years.  It was a great time here, the hardest thing
> to quit
> > > with FreeBSD is not the OS itselfe, the hard thing is to say good
> by to
> > > all my friends in the mailling lists and chatrooms, which are
> using
> > > FreeBSD.  The community is quite good, and I don't know how long
> it will
> > > take to get new friends in the linux community.  I hope there will
> come
> > > some nice guys like you.  (Esspecially Joe and Franz, but the
> others
> > > too.)
> >
> > May I ask you what it makes you switch over to Linux? I am just
> curious..
> > :-)
> >
> 
> Bye Martin! Thanks for the nice words. :-)
> But i'm also interested why you are doing a so extreme
> switch-over to Linux only.

Yes, I think there is no real rational reason, and I cannot say, I have 
made this decision because of advantages or disadvantages from the one 
or other OS.

The main thing could be, that I also want to play on my computer some 
computer games.  I couln't get the nvidia-driver working on FreeBSD, 
without any crashes.  There are more games available on linux I found 
out, and porting new games to FreeBSD was a thing I found really hard, 
because this sources are often not very portable.  Now I don't have to 
port things.

On FreeBSD I couln't get rid of the linux emulation, (because only the 
linuxflashplayer for galeon worked, and it needed a wrapper there). You 
may say:  Who cares about that! But it's just that I don't liked it.

Then I started to test gentoo linux, a few weeks ago.  The first thing 
I saw was:  The computer starts faster.  My computer is a workstation, 
so this is good.  And the computer runs faster.  Ok, this is wrong.  
But the user can have the feeling that the computer runs faster 
(especial while using the gnome frontend, I didn't test kde so far), 
and people told me, this is because the linux scheduler is cheating.  
It runs the current visible things first, so it looks like it is 
faster, but it isn't really.

What I miss is, that gentoo doesn't support the gnome 2.3 deveoper 
branch (see the marcuscom portstree), so I'm working in 2.2 here.  But 
I found out, that this is not really a big problem for me right now.

I could talk on and on, why I decided for gentoo, but I think most of 
this things weren't in my mind when I was switching.  What I think 
about my self I could explain in german with the word 'Tapetenwechsel'. 
(For people who don't speak german, my dictionary translates this as 
'change of scene').

What do you think, when you hear my telling you this?

> Anyway ... good luck with you new OS-way of living ;-)

Thanks,  I'm not as good as I was in using FreeBSD, but it makes fun to 
practise and learn.

Martin




> Franz.
> 
> > Cheers,
> > Mezz
> >
> > > Good bye people.
> > >
> > > I'll miss you somehow.
> > >
> > > Yours,
> > > Martin
> > >
> > > PS.  Please take over the maintainership of my ports, some will go
> to
> > > gnome@, some to ports at .  Martin Grimme told me, that it would be
> nice if
> > > someone could take over the gdeskcal port for FreeBSD.  Write him
> an
> > > email (mailto:martin at pycage.de) to put you into his announcement
> list.
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